About Stanton Jones

Stanton Jones helps ISG clients rationalize and capitalize on emerging technology services within the context of the global outsourcing market. Stanton uses his unique background in both IT and outsourcing advisory services to bring a new and unique perspective to ISG clients.
Prior to his analyst role, Stanton led corporate technology strategy and global IT operations as TPI’s Chief Information Officer. Stanton played a key role in leading the transition of TPI into a publicly-traded unit of ISG.
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Membership-based clouds are exploding across the IT services sector. Traditionally asset-light providers are quickly building proprietary, multitenant clouds for their clientele, hoping to capture the next generation of ITIL-based managed services. But is it too late to catch up to the explosive growth of the public cloud?

Out-tasking services are increasingly eating away at the $110 billion outsourcing pie. However, these services are not necessarily pure-play cloud platforms — in many cases, they’re a combination of the best of both worlds.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service, Database-as-a-Service, Desktop-as-a-Service and — wait for it — Innovation-as-a-Service (Digital-Transformation-as-a-Service is still in beta). The industry is flooded with new per-employee and per-gigabyte offerings from traditional providers and a wave of new pure-play entrants.…

As-a-Service offerings are exploding in the enterprise, unleashing an unprecedented wave of consumer-friendly applications and services. However, buyers of these services are often surprised that it is them, not the provider that assumes the risk for success.

It’s a common occurrence today: a SaaS provider wows a business unit with its comprehensive features, embedded analytics and native iOS and Android apps.…

It’s no secret that shadow IT has been turbo-charged by public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and SoftLayer. However, shadow IT does not just blow up swim-lanes inside companies that keep their systems in-house; it’s rampant within the outsourcing customer ecosystem as well.

So, what happens when you have a mountain of low-friction, highly elastic computing supply mixed with a significant levels of ITO outsourcing spend up for renewal?…

Science fiction writer and futurist William Gibson said that way back in 2003 — quite a prescient statement given that today, for the first time in history, the gap between productivity and employment is widening.

Why is this happening?

Pundits suggest it’s policy-related (either too much if you’re on one side of the aisle, or too little if you’re on the other).…

A United States judge has ruled that control, not location, dictates which laws must be adhered to for access to stored electronic data. If the result goes against Microsoft, it will likely be a short-term blow to the broader cloud industry. However, in the long run, it will accelerate the development of technologies to help keep data stored on massively scaled systems private, no matter the location.…

When you use public cloud services, is it outsourcing? As with most answers, it depends.

As has been well documented, outsourcing today is primarily focused on shifting responsibility for existing processes to a provider at a lower cost and improving quality. There are, of course, transformational transactions happening, but by in large, outsourcing is focused on transitioning to a lower-cost delivery model.…

Last week we posted Part I of our interview with Jason Williamson, Global Leader, Management Consulting for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Jason shared with us AWS’s traction in the enterprise, as well as how AWS fits into the sourcing and partner ecosystem.

Continuing our series of discussions with firms that are shaking up the traditional outsourcing business, I had the opportunity to talk with Jason Williamson, Global Leader, Management Consulting for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The growth of AWS as a global infrastructure platform is unrelenting. There is little debate that currently, AWS defines the public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service market.…

The number of cloud inquiries from outsourcing clients continues to grow quickly. Many clients want to know how they can cut costs, reduce deployment time or tap into new capabilities that they struggle to implement with their traditional on-premises platforms. As expected, many of these inquiries focus on brand-name public cloud players like Amazon Web Services, Workday and Microsoft Online Services.…